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...even write your name in English, how can you fight for your rights in the courts of Australia?" Instituted by a Labor government in the early 1990s, Australia's policy of detaining all who arrive on its shores illegally has been continued by the conservative government of John Howard since it first won office in 1996. It's a policy as controversial as it is implacable - and it has seldom stirred more debate than since the revelation on Feb. 4 that a mentally ill Australian woman, Cornelia Rau, had been held for four months at South Australia's remote Baxter...
...Howard Dean, whose presidential campaign got derailed by endless replays of a barbaric yawp, go from public laughingstock to party leader? The new Democratic National Committee (D.N.C.) chairman started off with several advantages, including a loyal base that wrote a gazillion letters on his behalf and a lack of serious competition from other prominent Dems. Some Democratic Governors sought an anybody-but-Dean candidate, but neither former Nebraska Senator Bob Kerrey nor Michigan Governor Jennifer Granholm could be persuaded to run. Likewise, Iowa's Tom Vilsack decided that being Governor and D.N.C. chairman at the same time would complicate...
...acquired one of its own. Written a decade ago, the book was at first banned over concerns that the Republican side in the Chinese civil war gets off too gently, but later became a best seller. The original has been trimmed considerably by the respected American translator Howard Goldblatt, though it's still a monster, with scores of characters and more action than an Indiana Jones movie. "You can skip my other novels, but you must read Big Breasts and Wide Hips," Goldblatt quotes the author as saying. "In it I wrote about history, war, politics, hunger, religion, love...
Which brings us back to my friend Howard Dean. I strongly opposed his candidacy for president. I was angry about his cheap shots at Dick Gephardt. I was disdainful of his intemperance (well before the Iowa scream), scornful of his disproven theory that all you need to win is an excited liberal base (the base isn’t big enough), and—I confess—absolutely gleeful at the news that Mr. Fiscally Conservative Governor had squandered tens of millions of the Deaniacs’ Internet money...
George W. Bush (thank God) will never run for president again. And though 2008 will be a choice between two different men (or: a man and a woman!), Bush’s presidency will form the background onto which that contest is drawn. Howard Dean (if he keeps his word) will also never run for president again. But maybe what Democrats need right now is someone who can say what the Republicans said in 1993: This president isn’t nice, and he isn’t right. A Democratic “stubborn strategy” might...